DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT SERVICES IN MUNICIPALITIES. REPORT OF THE KULKU WORKIN GROUP

The task of the working group appointed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications was to look for ways to make transport services more effective and to achieve moneysaving by co-ordinating transport operations and shifting the emphasis of the activity more and more on to the local level. Different experimental projects were founded in relation to the working group in different parts of Finland. Eight projects were chosen as experimental projects, in which 16 municipalities were involved. The experiment included basic investigations as well as quite extensive transport projects i.e. the combination of transport operations with the help of the travel dispatch centre, the development of demand responsive public transport, and the development of more effective co-operation within municipalities and between neighbouring municipalities. The most important results of the experimental projects were the improvement of services and transport cost savings. Furthermore, significant indirect benefits were got, which are not expressed in money terms. Especially, the opportunities of movement for ageing people could be improved and their independent initiative increased, and thus to achieve savings in indirect costs as well. Directs savings achieved in the municipalities where the experiments were conducted amounted at least to FIM 6 million. It is estimated that by realising corresponding measures also in other municipalities of the same size, savings of about FIM 70 million can be achieved. If the estimate is expanded to cover also municipalities of other size, about FIM 120 million savings will be achieved in the whole country. All experiments did not include all public transport operations. Consequently, additional savings can be achieved by expanding experiments also to other administrative sectors, besides those included in. Although the Ministry of Transport and Communications financed the experiments, it were other administrative sectors who got indirect benefits. Ageing of the population increases considerably transport costs. The present report shows solution models, by means of which considerable savings can be achieved and the ever-growing needs for subsidies managed. The descriptions of the experimental projects provide with information of local development projects, which can be utilised also in other municipalities.

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  Ministry of Transport and Communications

  ETELAESPLANADI 16-18
  HELSINKI,   Finland  FIN-00131
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• Finnish

Media Info

• Pagination: 81 p.
• Serial:
  • PUBLICATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
  • Volume: A
  • Issue Number: 27/1999
  • Publisher: MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FINLAND
  • ISSN: 0783-2680

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City government; Demand responsive transportation; Governments; Local government; Passengers; Public service; Public transit; Service agencies
• Geographic Terms: Finland
• ITRD Terms: 1157: Community transport; 1157: Dial a ride; 8035: Finland; 192: Local authority; 744: Public transport; 391: Services (public); 1715: Vehicle occupant
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00920395
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• ISBN: 951-723-253-5
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Mar 6 2002 12:00AM